Sunday, August 21, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHoult hangs up the dress and luvvie cadences of his fringe-staple alter ego Anna Mann in a camp, silly yet surprisingly emotional show
When a character comic bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMSaturday, August 20, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWilson relives her tumultuous turn as a teenage talent show contestant armed with laughter and song, topped with a touching tribute to her plucky younger self
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghOkatsuka’s slightly incapable, slightly on-edge persona is a fun time, whose yarn about an intruder frames material on marriage, mental illness and migration
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMFriday, August 19, 2022
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe answer may seem obvious but the commanding comic’s fringe debut eschews any clear structure with mixed results
Back in 2020, Thanyia Moore was planning h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMThe Mash House, EdinburghThe New Jersey comic mines his lineage for laughs in a pensive dispatch from cosa nostra America (or somewhere nearby)
The “dead dad” show is a fringe comedy cli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMaturity has made the awkward standup more at ease with himself and lent heft and fruitful battle-scarring to his shtick
It’s a feature of standup that comedy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMThursday, August 18, 2022
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghSherman’s show, pitched between anti-comedy, performance art and body horror, leaves no doubt why she’s also known as Sarah Squirm
Delightfully weird, says the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghPart observational, part autobiographical, The Real Hero in All This considers life from ever-surprising angles
Sixteen years in Malaysia, 16 in the UK. Thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghAdam has lots to say – about proposals, weddings, football and houseplants – and delivers it with puppyish pleasure
There are worse qualities to bring to standup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom jokes about men’s waning dominance to a teary anecdote, this show runs through a range of emotions on a post-breakup journey
Wanna feel weird? Try star-r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkle
Gen Z’ers have every reason to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Mischief Theatre regular delivers routines to fit the audience’s requests before heading down a darker path in an uneven show
“You can’t please everyo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThe festival is in full swing with audiences crammed into comedy clubs. But is our global pandemic the elephant in the room?
Comedian Sam Nicoresti starts his show with an elaborate sanitisi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMQuestions of free speech offer no simple answers, but it’s clear that this is a watershed moment in comedy
If we don’t defend free speech, we live in tyranny. That’s the tenor of the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMMonday, August 15, 2022
It’s a form of comedy that has fallen out of favour with TV, but a trio of fun acts are keeping the sketch flame alive
One of the pleasures of the fringe is checking in with standups as th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA gang of New Zealand comics and their very special guests become Elvis impersonators, hobbits and chimney sweeps in a fun fringe night
Great was the excitement…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSaturday, August 13, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMischief Theatre are up to their old tricks as silly slapstick meets telepathy in a send-up of stage mentalism
Stage mentalism – the world of Derren Brown and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMFriday, August 12, 2022
Monkey Barrel @ The Hive, EdinburghThe endearing comic’s Edinburgh debut is a riotously inventive show that blurs notions of race, gender and disability
You could call Lara Ricote’s Edi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMUnderbelly, George Square, EdinburghIn her show All Change Please it’s marriage, not politics, that’s at the heart of the Mash Report satirist’s finest jokes
Rachel Parris always knew …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAdam Meggido’s play finds the teenage Johnson starring in Shakespeare’s tragedy and gives a taste of his future leadership
Out of his depth as a tragedy unf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMThursday, August 11, 2022
Assembly George Square, EdinburghDebut show directed by Jordan Brookes sees Will Rowland and Eddy Hare deliver a familiar odd-couple turn with freshness
“The UK’s lowest energy double ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, August 10, 2022
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghBrokentalkers theatre company and feminist comic Adrienne Truscott joyfully burlesque the ugliness of machismo in art and in life
The great male artist may soon be o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMStand New Town theatre, EdinburghMaking her fringe standup debut after blazing a trail through modelling and activism, Olumide has some promising material but it fails to come together
Fashi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show The Woman’s Hour, the viral comedy star offers caricatures of burbling backbenchers and a woke-bashing TV host
In the darkness of our political mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMMonkey Barrel, EdinburghWith cartoonish flair, the likable comic – one half of sketch duo The Delightful Sausage – revels in the repeated indignity of being ditched for someone else
The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMMonday, August 8, 2022
The former PM’s one-off onstage chat with standup Matt Forde belied his dour image. If only he’d shown more of this side of himself to the electorate
Where is the comedy, Matt Forde, in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMAssembly Rooms, EdinburghWith Lap of Shame, the comic delivers a set of breathtakingly rude jokes and thought-provoking ghastliness
A friend of Frankie Boyle’s, he tells us, stopped watchi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Childhood friends and LOL Word affiliates Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde leave no assumption unturned with their deft wit and breezy musical interplay
A venerable tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMStand Comedy Club, EdinburghThe standup delivers a compelling show that reflects on his Strictly Come Dancing notoriety and harsh childhood experiences
Many may struggle to sympathise – f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMSunday, August 7, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSikisa Bostwick-Barnes’s ebullience carries her through a debut solo show that’s punctuated with dance breaks
You can see why Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes themed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMSaturday, August 6, 2022
Underbelly Bristo Square, EdinburghMilo McCabe’s matinee-idol character initially feels at odds with his material, but it’s hard not to be won over by his enthusiasm
Milo McCabe performe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PM 
